for those grieving the "win" by Trump

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I once read a piece, written by whom I do not remember, that 'dictatorships' rarely survive the dictator's demise.

A study into the nature of Inuktitut - the framework

When one looks closely into Inuktut pragmatics, one finds this:

Taamasi Qumaq:

uqaqtuq – inuk suliniraqsuni isumaminik uqatuarami taga uqaqtuq piujumik piunngitumigluuniit

            person/ truth+claims+he+when/ (about)+his+mind/, talks+immediately+when/, thus/,                    speak+he/ good/ good+not+it+a+or/ 

or,

speaks - when a person claims to tell the truth as far as he/she is aware of and faithful to that gotten knowledge, thus, says something - good or bad - about that given subject (vouchsafed)

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In Inuktut, the semantic and connotational features are "invisible" (ie, "implied") in formalized/ritualized speech, like any and all human languages. But it is systematic and systemic in that it is called an "3rd person, singular, indicative mood" in linguistics. This verbal inflection is then compared to other forms: "let me..."; "am I..?" (I'll explain these verbal modality in later posts)

This is Aimo Paniloo

this is Aimo Paniloo:

Twist Of Words - Kangiqtugaapik

He can conceive of and orchestrate stuff like this and best me in this rendition of a song I wrote (sans words):

ᐊᐅᔭᒃᑯᑦ (Cover)

A study into the nature of Inuktitut - an introduction

The morpho-syntactic rules of the Inuit-Yupik language, unified across the board in this respect, are different from SVO or OSV languages, say, English or French. Inuktut (the Inuit language) has this syntax for the intransitive predicate:

pisuk                   +       tunga                              pisuktunga

to walk                        (or verb-ing)+I               to walk I am                   I am walking/I walk

The pattern looks like this: infinitive verb + default (progressive) present tense/aspect + subject of the predicate in the indicative mood.

To this, one may insert non-present adverbial tenses (more on proximity of temporality later).

pisuk                   +        lauq+tunga                        pisulauqtunga

to walk                         past I                                  to walk I did                I was walking/I walked

or,

pisuk                   +          niaq+tunga                        pisungniaqtunga

to walk                           future I                              to walk I will              I will be walking/ I will                                                                                                                         walk

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In my next installment, I will explain the use of other subject pronominal endings (person and number) that go with the intransitive, indicative mood using different adverbial morphemes (such as manner, frequency, degree, movement and direction, etc.).